Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 3:6

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6. :- , is a new discourse, delivered in Josiah's reign. It consists of two parts, the former extending to :- , in which he warns Judah from the example of Israel's doom, and yet promises Israel final restoration; the latter a threat of Babylonian invasion; as Nabopolassar founded the Babylonian empire, 625 B.C., the seventeenth of Josiah, this prophecy is perhaps not earlier than that date ( Jeremiah 4:5 ; Jeremiah 5:14 ; Jeremiah 6:1 ; Jeremiah 22:1-30 ); and probably not later than the second thorough reformation in the eighteenth year of the same reign. backsliding —literally, "apostasy"; not merely apostate, but apostasy itself, the essence of it ( Jeremiah 3:14 ; Jeremiah 3:22 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-7" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-jer-3-002

절 (explains)

bible-text/jer-3-6

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological